Police are investigating after a substance similar to OC spray was discharged in a Townsville shopping centre rest room today, injuring patrons.
It will be alleged at around 11am a groups of young females entered the toilets of a Kings Road shopping centre and sprayed a chemical substance believed to be capsicum spray into the air.
A short time later two women aged 27 and 79 entered the bathroom and inhaled the unknown substance which immediately began to make their airways and nose burn, causing breathing difficulties.
The women alerted a female shopping centre employee and a 23-year-old male security guard who entered the area and were also immediately overcome.
Police were called to the scene where the victims were treated by paramedics before being transported to Townsville Hospital.
Officers reviewed CCTV and a short time later arrested four teenage girls in the vicinity who were allegedly in possession of a small black cannister.
The girls,
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